California's Living New Deal Project [videorecording] / by Gray Brechin. [2009?]

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California's Living New Deal Project [videorecording] / by Gray Brechin. [2009?]

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Talk with PowerPoint slides on the New Deal, with a focus on programs in California. California's Living New Deal Project is a collaborative effort to identify, map, interpret, and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the vast public works legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. The Project documents the cumulative impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and other New Deal programs on California.

1 videodisc (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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